Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1887-03-04
obituary.

Died, at her I'd sidence on Third street,
Ogden, Utah, lon Thursday evening
March 2, 1887, al 8 O'Clock, Mrs. A. j.
nee Ann Jennttt Mortimore, wife Of
Major V. NJ. Cl Silva, aged AZ years.
Mrs. Silva was lorn on the Sd of August,
lS43,ai New York City, within two
blocks of the hoase where her destined
husband first stw the light. She was
descended from bne of the oldest families
in the East, and, as her name (Morti-
more) demonstf rates one of the most
famous families IN England's history.
On the 18th tof June, 1871, she was
married to Majot V. NJ G. Silva, by the
Rev. DR.. Sthp4en H. Ting, Jr., after
which she ACCOMPANIED her soldier hus-
band to his CAMP in the wilds of far off
Arizona, where fis regiment at that time
was doing dutyI
Mrs. Silva rem ained with her husband
during his services on the frontier, par
taking of all the! vicissitudes of the ever
changeful soldiers life, and finally they
found themselves stationed at Fort Van
couver, w. T., the Major being COM
mandant of the post.
Whilst there a daughter was born to
them on September %, 1872, Martha
Rose Silva. The following July Mrs.
Silva took her child on a visit to her
family in New York, and whilst on this
visit the child died.
''There is no flock, however watched and
tended,
But one dead lamb is there!
There is no fireside, hOwso'er defended,
But has one vacant chair"
To-day, in Greenwood cemetery, Brook
Ign, marble monument marks the spot
on the highest ridge in that famous City
of the Dead, where rest the remains of
little Martha, their first and only child !;
and close by, ere long, new made grave
will contain the child's mother.
After her daughters death Mrs. Silva
failed in health, and it may be said, was
a confirmed invalid since. On the 18th
of February she became seriously i'll, but
in a few days rallied and appeared to be
gaining in strength and vigor, but on last
Sunday February 90 she had relapse,
and all that the most expert medical
skill and the loving care OF devoted
friends could do, was done without avail,
and at O'Clock Thursday evening her
spirit winged its flight to IL home in
Heaven. Gentle, amiable, modest, pure
and good, possessing every grace and
virtue Of perfect womanhood, she was
respected, loved and revered by all who
were blessed in knowing her.
'She was worthy of her ancestry, in
whatsoever things were true, honorable,
Just, pure, lovely and of good report. +"
This world is all the better that she has
lived, and now in her death, the honest
svmr"t thy of this whole community ex-
TEN itself to the stricken husband, as
he m9urns in the late happy home, now
80 desc ate.
''She j. L dead, the child of our affection,
Br' gone uto that school
Where she 10 longer needs our poor protec
And Christ himself doth rule
ave wiz be patient, and assuage the feeling
We may not wholly stay:
BY silence sanotifying, not concealing
The grief that must have way"
The wife D. 50 loved and honored on
earth is now his guardian angel in
heaven, am out OF the blackness of the
darkness that has fallen on his hitherto
pleasant life, he will clearly hear the
loving words that come whispering down
through the centuries -
Come unto Me all ye that labor, and are
heavy laden, and will give you rest"